Many people on here will probably hate me but.....?

Question

How do I gain weight? I am 5'6, 29 years old, and have had an 8 pound 4 ounce baby(now 8 years old). I have tried ensure and i do eat alot. just hoping someone can help.

My friends say i can eat like a man but it doesn't go anywhere. what do i do to make it stick?

i forgot to tell you i weigh 106 and i do not excersise at all. I would be willing to but at this point i do not.

Answer 1

Weight training, this is the answer. You dont want to just eat and gain fat, you want to eat , exercise and gain muscle. While you were sleeping, you were essentially fasting and your body already began to break down your muscle tissue and use it as fuel, exercising without eating makes it worse, you will lose more muscle. Eating as soon as you wake up stops the body from breaking down muscle and fuels you up, and eating immediately after your workout stops the breakdown process again(while working out your body starts to break down muscle again) and also stimulates muscle growth. The foods you eat greatly affects how your body reacts to the workout, I eat 2 whole eggs and 3 egg whites all cooked by the way, and 2 servings of oatmeal and an apple or a banana as soon as I wake up, 2 hours later I workout, right after my workout, like immediately after, I eat a can of tuna and 2 servings of instant rice along with 3 egg whites. The eggs are digested quite quickly and combined with the carbs from the apple and oatmeal this stops the catabolic process(muscle breakdown) when I wake up, Now, you use all your fuel again when you work out and the catabolic process restarts, eating some fast digesting protein and carbs like egg whites and instant rice stops the process very quickly(lay off the fat for this meal, fat slows digestion, not want you want at this particular time) before you lose too much muscle and together they stimulate muscle repair and growth by creating an isulin spike in your blood, this is important without the COMBINATION of protein and carbs there will be no insulin spike and no building blocks and your muscles will continue to degrade. Muscle burns fat, muscle is what you need, forget about fat for awhile its just stressing you out, your main mission now is to build muscle, the muscle will take care of the fat. Bodybuilders use this technique.(dont worry , you won't look like Arnold Schwarzeneggar, but you could if you wanted to I guess) Ive been using it for only 2 workouts and I notice muscle gain already. Below is a site where you can learn more about this process, Look in Supersite, Nutrition, look for preworkout and post workout nutrition, very fascinating, the workout is only half the battle, nutrition will help you attain your goals and much more.
The benefits dont arise from the workout, the workout is actually damaging your body, what you eat next will make or break you, analagous to bone breaks, when a bone breaks, it heals back stronger and bigger than before to perform better, provided you eat properly, muscles react the same way.

Please read this site, also in the menu are Exercises, these show you which exercises work which muscle groups and how to do them correctly, also in Workouts you will find a workout database with hundreds of different types of workouts, whether its toning, bulking up or strength training.

Remember the workout is only half the battle, nutrition is the other half. Dont workout for little or no gains, proper preworkout and postworkout nutrition will dramatically increase the effectiveness of your workout.


Also at least 1 day in between workouts is crucial, muscle gowth can take more than 36 hours. So rest 1 day workout the next.

Eating 6 meals a day increases metabolism all day, meaning you burn a hell of alot more calories even at rest than if you didnt eat.

Breakfast should be your largest meal by far, its your most important meal of the day, remember the muscle breakdown? I consume about 500 calories for breakfast at 7am(550-600 on workout day), next meal is at 10 am about 350-400 calories(right after my workout) next at 1pm 300 calories, 4pm 250 calories, 7pm 200 calories and my last meal at 10pm right before bed is 150-200 calories. I drink milk and eat yogurt at 10pm, reason being, dairy products contain a slow digesting protein called casein, casein will protect my muscles from breakdown for most of the night, but remember to eat more protein and carbs as soon as you wake up to stop the muscle breakdown again. Reminds me of my Dad telling me to drink my milk and get to bed when I was a kid...lol. Thanks Dad.

I try to get protein for all my meals , protein are the building blocks for muscle, with little or no building blocks you cant build and the muscle structure will begin to crumble.

A good formula to gain muscle mass is to consume 0.75 gram per pound of ideal body weight, my ideal body weight is 155 pounds so I consume 120 grams of protein(calculation is 116.25grams)

You can calculate your ideal bodyweight in the Nutrientfacts.com site

I also included a link that will explain how the "fat burning zone myth" and how much fat is burned during low intensity and high intensity workouts..."The misconceptions come from a basic confusion between percentages and absolute amounts. See, at rest, the body is always burning a mix of fuels. All other things being equal, it doesn't like to burn protein, so that leaves fats and carbohydrates (more technically, fatty acids and glucose). At rest, the "average" person burns about 70 percent fat and 30 percent carbs. As one moves from rest to activity, the percentage of fuel coming from fat decreases and the percentage coming from carbs increases. The more intense the exercise, the more carbs and the less fat in the mix, until you reach the point called the "anaerobic threshold" where you're going at about your intensity limit. At that point, 99 percent or more of your fuel is pure carbohydrate and 1 percent or less is coming from fat.

Now, this situation has led many people to assume that in order to "burn fat" they need to exercise at lower intensities. They're missing the boat. Why? Because while at rest, although a higher percentage of your calories is indeed coming from fat, you are ultimately burning a lower absolute number of calories. At higher intensity exercise, the percentage of calories from fat goes down, true -- but it is a percentage of a significantly higher number.

To illustrate this critical difference, I often ask audiences to picture Ross Perot standing next to me. Then I ask them, "Would you rather have 90 percent of all the money I have in the world, or 3 percent of all the money Mr. Perot over here has?" When they give the obvious answer, I say, "But why? 90 percent is so much higher than 3 percent!"

They get the picture.

So, let's say you're exercising at a fairly low intensity that burns, oh, 100 calories in a half-hour. Let's say that 70 percent of those calories come from fat. Your neighbor, however, is working out much harder, outside the magical "fat burning" zone: She's burning up, say 300 calories in that same half hour, but only 50 percent of those calories are from fat. Now do the math. You're burning a higher percentage of fat, but 70 percent of your 100 calories equals 70 fat calories burned. Your neighbor, on the other hand, is burning a lower percentage of fat, but she has burned up 50 percent of 300 calories, or 150 fat calories, more than twice what you've burned in the same period of time!"

Eggs have cholesterol, good cholesterol, consuming whole eggs have been proven to lower"bad" cholesterol in your body. Eggs, they're not just for breakfast anymore. (just dont eat more than you need in a day, eggs are an alternative to meats but you should eat more meat than eggs)

There is more than enough sodium in the foods we eat, you shouldnt add more salt. excess salt will make you retain water, making you feel pudgey. Water is heavy too. My sister used alot of salt, she cut it out and lost 3 inches off her waist, that was only like two weeks ago she stopped using salt. That was alot of water she was carrying around.

Answer 2

How much exercise do you do, daily? I have found that, although I have a great deal of trouble hanging onto weight, that I really work off the food with my daily routine. I am GLAD that someone has written about how hard it is to keep weight ON! I am 5'5", and have trouble staying more than a size 1. People think this is great, but, I say that my figure disappeared! Are you a big vegetable and fruit eater? I know those are my favorite foods. Do you eat much meat at all? Are you a 'sweets' eater? Do you eat a lot one day and then forget to eat for a day or two? (i am guilty of that one). I've had two children, and only gained about 14 pounds with each one. So, I never had the 'after the baby' fat to deal with. Are you a big water drinker? (I ask that, because I could live on Propel Mineral Water!). When your friends say you can eat so much, is that something you only do, rarely? If you are healthy, and feel good, get lots of exercise, and eat what you need for your system to stay healthy...........I say, "Great!"!!

Answer 3

Your metabolism is great for you to build muscle and keep the fat off. You might never get that big, but make sure you're eating well (stay away from the bad stuff as tempting as it might be), and do some resistance training instead of cardio and eat plenty of protein 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilo of bodyweight. By lifting ever increasing weights your body will be forced to increase its muscle tissue as long as your diet's up to it.

Be careful of creatine, some studies have found that it causes birth defects if it's taken during conception.

Answer 4

2 ways,

safe way - buy products from your local fitness shop for weight gain, full of callories..

other way

Atkins diet - bloody crazy but will work. Use the diet for about a month or 2, then just eat callories. Your body will do anything to store them so you will bang weight on.

2nd idea not recomended because can cause health problems but i garantee it will work

Answer 5

Everybody's metabolism is different. Yours must burn calories very fast. Keep eating, but eat more healthy foods not fatty foods. I would see a doctor to confirm that everything is okay and to help plan a diet to put on weight.

You can always take suppliments, like whey protien, and put it in your water etc to help you put on weight.

Answer 6

Try drinking creatine. Or some supplements that males usually take in order to gain weight at the gym to turn into muscle.

Answer 7

have you had your thyroid function checked? hyperthyroidism often results in lack of weight gain.

Answer 8

muz be ur high metabolic rate?